And the word 'impressionist' is being used as an adjective.

But, ... er ... upon looking at some photographs of okapi, it appears that the mane shown in the painting my not be present upon an actual okapi, ... as a genteel way of expressing the situation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9aI_qtYtItI

William

Consider please the following image, and the prompt that was input to the AI system that resulted in the generation of that picture, and other pictures.

https://punster.me/serif/viewtopic.php?pid=3876#p3876

A curious image with a curious caption! The former has what looks rather like a feather duster sticking up between its ears, and the latter refers to “an okapi impressionist”.

There is a discussion in a well-known forum that includes asking about whether pictures produced using generative AI are properly described as Art.

I have produced pictures using generative AI. In fact, using the Bing Chat AI web-based facility, that facility now named Copilot.

To do that I have used a text prompt. Some text prompts are fairly short, some are longer.

I like to think of myself as an artist, yes, a hobbyist artist.

However, that thinking of myself as an artist is not based on having authored text prompts to an AI program.

Though I have sometimes used my knowledge of art, (as an artist?) in the authoring of a prompt to the AI system, such as by mentioning concepts such as golden ratio and rabatment.

As a side issue, I only learned of rabatment fairly recently, that from learning about it from John Kay's book that John kindly linked to in a post in another thread in this forum.

https://punster.me/serif/viewtopic.php?pid=5555#p5555

Consider please the following image, and the prompt that was input to the AI system that resulted in the generation of that picture, and other pictures.

https://punster.me/serif/viewtopic.php?pid=3876#p3876

I chose that one. I have now got a framed print of the picture - I ordered a square, full-field, what is called a photo greetings card, from Papier.com, though using the image output from the AI system rather than a photograph. That had the effect of enlarging the image to fit and using a little from the edges as bleed areas, so losing those little edge parts. I also have a giclée print on a white background at exact size of 1024 pixels by 1024 pixels at 300 dots per inch on a 7 inch by 5 inch piece of archive quality paper and I opine that it looks really good, though I do not purport to be a "recognized" art critic.

So is it art?

Please discuss. Examples and links to examples are welcome in this discussion.

William